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Youth and violence The role of education inspiring solutions

Activist and Educator Karen Ridd

Refreshments and Reflection: Small Discussion Groups in a Plenary Session
Karen Ridd, Professor, Menno Simons College, a college of the Canadian Mennonite University, affiliated with the University of Winnipeg. She has worked in the area of nonviolence throughout North America and abroad. Karen has designed and led workshops for young people, teachers, labor leaders, Cambodian Buddhist monks, Thai farmers, Mohawk activists, and Bangkok human rights workers. She has also worked in El Salvador and Guatemala, where she provided unarmed protective accompaniment for human rights leaders threatened with assassination. Her work with Peace Brigades International has won her numerous awards, including the 1992 Governor-General’s 125th Anniversary Award, the 1990 Canada YM/YWCA Peace Medal and the 1989 Manitoba International Human Rights Achievement Award.